Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Šayẖ, Nādiyā Mariyyā al- (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Women, Islam, and Abbasid identity [Texte imprimé] / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 160 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-153) and index
When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in
legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of
their Islamic subjects. Nadia Maria El Cheikh shows that ideas about women were central
to the process by which the Abbasid caliphate, which ushered in Islam's Golden Age,
achieved self-definition. In most medieval Islamic cultures, Arab Islam stood in opposition
to jahl, or the state of impurity and corruption that existed prior to Islam's founding.
Over time, the concept of jahl evolved into a more general term describing a condition
of ignorance and barbarism--as well as a condition specifically associated in Abbasid
discourse with women. Concepts of womanhood and gender became a major organizing principle
for articulating Muslim identity. Groups whose beliefs and behaviors were perceived
by the Abbasids as a threat--not only the jahilis who lived before the prophet Muhammad
but peoples living beyond the borders of their empire, such as the Byzantines, and
heretics who defied the strictures of their rule, such as the Qaramita--were represented
in Abbasid texts through gendered metaphors and concepts of sexual difference. These
in turn influenced how women were viewed, and thus contributed to the historical construction
of Muslim women's identity. Through its investigation of how gender and sexuality
were used to articulate cultural differences and formulate identities in Abbasid systems
of power and thought, Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity demonstrates the importance
of women to the writing of early Islamic history. (Publisher)
Sujet(s) : Abbassides (dynastie)
Musulmanes -- Empire islamique
Empire islamique -- 750-1258
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.486 97 (23e éd.) = Femmes musulmanes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674736368. - ISBN 0674736362
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45792712n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45792712
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Hind bint Utba : prototype of the Jahiliyya and Umayyad woman ; Women's lamentation
and death rituals in early Islam ; The hertical within : the Qaramita and the intimate
realm ; Beyond borders : gender and the Byzantines ; Fashioning a new identity :
women exemplars and the search for meaning.
